Natural History Museum: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·Greater London·London
Official UK PPONPJBJ-4723-MZPX
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 22 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
65 awarded tenders, 76 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| DC1 Solar Wall Principal Contractor | 4 Nov 2026 | 7d | £950,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
45 Construction work18 procedures · 29% · 1 open92 Recreational, cultural and sporting18 procedures · 29%71 Architectural, construction, engineering15 procedures · 24% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting12 procedures · 19%48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 6%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet4 procedures · 6%35 Security, fire-fighting, police3 procedures · 5%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 5%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 63 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract90%(57 notices)
57 of 63 notices are Contract (90%).Framework8%(5 notices)
5 of 63 notices are Framework (8%).Dynamic purchasing system2%(1 notice)
1 of 63 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Open54%(34 notices)
34 of 63 notices are Open (54%).Route not published27%(17 notices)
17 of 63 notices are Route not published (27%).Direct award11%(7 notices)
7 of 63 notices are Direct award (11%).Limited / restricted5%(3 notices)
3 of 63 notices are Limited / restricted (5%).Selective3%(2 notices)
2 of 63 notices are Selective (3%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 22 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 17 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 63 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 17 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| BILD STUDIOS LTD | 2 | 3.1% | 2 | 2 | 14 Sept 2026 |
| Sam Forster Associates Ltd | 2 | 3.1% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Element Biosciences Netherlands B.V. | 2 | 3.1% | 2 | 2 | 16 May 2025 |
| BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP LTD | 2 | 3.1% | 2 | 2 | 18 Sept 2026 |
| Haworth Tompkins Ltd | 2 | 3.1% | 2 | 2 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| CBRE MANAGED SERVICES LIMITED | 2 | 3.1% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Total Support Services Ltd | 2 | 3.1% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Conservation By Design Limited | 1 | 1.5% | 1 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 65 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 76 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Soft Facilities Management Services Provider | Total Support Services Ltd | — | — | £14,180,000 † |
| Hard Facilities Management Services Provider | CBRE MANAGED SERVICES LIMITED | — | — | £12,043,194 † |
| NHM150 Western Galleries - Base Build Lead Architect | Haworth Tompkins Ltd | 6 Aug 2026 | 5.6 yrs · up to 6.8 yrs | £1,530,845 ≈ £274k/yr |
| NHM150 Western Galleries – Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health | BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP LTD | 18 Sept 2026 | 5.5 yrs | £719,569 ≈ £131k/yr |
| Creative Content Exchange Platform | Harbr Group Limited | 3 Feb 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 2 yrs | £500,000 ≈ £500k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
54 of 66 contracts carry an end date, 22 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| CCE Project Consultancy Services | UDAVEY LTD | 29 Jan 2027 | £158,000 |
| Technical Adviser - Refurbishment and Roof Upgrade Design & Works - Palaeontology Building Northern Elevation | BPA Architecture | 31 Mar 2027 | £148,000 |
| Public Address and Voice Alarm Design Consultant | Avitas Global Ltd trading as RH Consulting | 30 Apr 2027 | £150,000 |
| Art Programme Principal Contractor | BILD STUDIOS LTD | 21 May 2027 | £273,798 |
| Gallery 33 Refurbishment: Design and Consultancy Services | Studio Downie Architects LLP | 20 Jul 2027 | £222,843 |
| Gallery 33 - 3D and 2D Exhibition Design/Lead Designer | AOC Architecture Limited | 31 Jul 2027 | £159,940 |
| Gallery 33 - Immersive Experience Ideation and Production Services | THE WORKERS (INTERNATIONAL) LTD | 31 Aug 2027 | £150,000 |
| Sou’ester coat and jacket | PCL Corporatewear Limited | 25 Sept 2027 estimated | £16,250 |
| Lab jacket and waistcoat | PCL Corporatewear Limited | 25 Sept 2027 estimated | £25,164 |
| Tops and accessories | Scimitar Sport UK Ltd | 3 Oct 2027 estimated | £42,784 |
Soonest 10 of 12 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 110 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Raman Unit | Awarded / complete | 23 Oct 2026 | — |
| NHM Learning Management System 2026 - 2030Training services | Awarded / complete | 20 Oct 2026 | — |
| Art Programme Principal Contractor | Awarded / complete | 20 Oct 2026 | — |
| CCE Project Consultancy Services | Awarded / complete | 20 Oct 2026 | — |
| Collections Store Refurbishments - Logistics Hub - Principal ContractorConstruction work for art and cultural buildings | Planning | 8 Oct 2026 | £1,000,000 |
| Art Programme Principal Contractor | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | — |
| Wildlife Photographer of the Year Photographic Printing ServicesPhotographic services | Awarded / complete | 23 Sept 2026 | £290,000 |
| NHM150 Western Galleries - AV Hardware IntegratorHardware integration consultancy services | Open | 18 Sept 2026 | £300,000 |
| NHM150 Western Galleries - Base Build Mechanical, Electrical and Public HealthAdvisory and consultative engineering services | Awarded / complete | 18 Sept 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| Public Address and Voice Alarm Design ConsultantAlarm systems | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2026 | £200,000 |
| Gallery 33 - Principal ContractorConstruction work for art and cultural buildings | Planning | 14 Sept 2026 | £1,400,000 |
| Cold Water Services - Tank Refurbishment Principal ContractorInstallation of pipe system | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2026 | £150,000 |
| NHM150 Western Galleries - Galleries Lead Designer (Fit Out) - Exhibition DesignDesign consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2026 | £2,400,000 |
| Cold Water Services Design ConsultancyBuilding services consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 21 Aug 2026 | £300,000 |
| Museum Consumables for Collection Storage FrameworkFurniture (incl. office furniture) | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2026 | £4,400,000 |
| NHM150 Western Galleries – Visitor Flow and Circulation ConsultantAnalysis services | Open | 10 Aug 2026 | £40,000 |
| NHM Retail Merchandise Management SystemBusiness transaction and personal business software package | Cancelled | 7 Aug 2026 | £530,000 |
| NHM150 Western Galleries - Base Build Lead ArchitectArchitectural and related services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| Exhibition Lighting Design - Request for InformationArtificial and natural lighting engineering services for buildings | Planning | 28 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| OGH Beta Principal ContractorConstruction work for art and cultural buildings | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | £140,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 54 of 66 published contracts have an end date; 22 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.